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Chuck Palahniuk's avatar

At Study Hall. Slightly burned out. Good night.

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Elliott Daphne's avatar

First of all, thanks for this awesome post. I’ll add this to my arsenal. I’d always seen groups of four or more, but hadn’t given a lot of thought to extremely long lists that take up pages. I’d noticed them, but didn’t understand how they functioned and how to execute them effectively. Instead I just read them and felt like they worked well for that author, but if I tried them then they wouldn’t work for me and would just seem boring and out of place. Now I get how to implement them successfully.

I just finished reading Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut seems to be a master of lists like this, among many other things. I’m wondering if you would consider doing a post (or even multiple posts) on him in the future? His story telling is epic and I know I’ll be reading Slaughterhouse Five for the rest of my life. It blew me away. It seems that every other page I was dog-earing and underlining a technique I wanted to steal.

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